Pottery Barn inspired desk transformation

Description: I was inspired by a desk set at Pottery Barn that I couldn’t afford. I used my old (red/brown) Effective Desk and bought two solid oak file cabinets off craigslist for $75.

before

- I painted the Desk Top and the cabinets Benjamin Moore’s Timid White - I removed the Ikea legs and hardware from the desk and braced the back corner with some braces I fashioned from metal plates and $2 banister inserts from Home Depot. It is solid! - The Desk Top just rests on the cabinets at either end.

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Jules Yap "I am Jules, the engine behind IKEAHackers and the one who keeps this site up and running. My mission is to capture all the wonderful, inspiring, clever hacks and ideas for our much loved IKEA items".

Brilliant job. The file cabinets are sensational! The only suggestion I could make is to attach some kind of molding to the underside of the desk top in that the middle space to disguise how thin the top is. (Tricky because of the curve, but you might even be able to get away with a piece of painted foam weather stripping.) Thanks for the inspiration!

Great looking desk! Was the right edge left unpainted for a reason though? In the picture where painting is “in progress,” the unpainted edge appears on the left. In the finished picture, it appears on the right. Perhaps an inside edge is facing outside by mistake?

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